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Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia

Cuesta, José - 2017

This paper quantifies the magnitude of transitions across occupational categories in Colombia, a country with high unemployment and informality but quickly increasing its social security coverage for health. The analysis makes use of a panel of households between 2008 and 2009, representative of...

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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

Bah, Adama - 2018

Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …

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Performance of Social Safety Net Programs in Uttar Pradesh

Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012

Ajwad assesses the effectiveness of core social protection programs in Uttar Pradesh using the following criteria: i) coverage, ii) targeting efficiency; and iii) adequacy and potential impact on household welfare. The study is largely a quantitative assessment. Five main findings emerge from...

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Managing the Coordination of Service Delivery in Metropolitan Cities : The Role of Metropolitan Governance

Slack, Enid - 2016

This paper examines different models of governing structure found in metropolitan areas around the world. It evaluates how well these models achieve the coordination of service delivery over the entire metropolitan area as well as the extent to which they result in the equitable sharing of costs...

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Urban Agglomerations and Employment Transitions in Ethiopia

Kamei, Akito - 2020

Agglomeration boosts economic growth. A vast literature has empirically assessed the effects of agglomeration by estimating the city population elasticity on wages. This conventional approach is not necessarily suitable for analyzing urbanization at the early stage in developing countries, where...

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Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country

Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2018

on Indonesia and makes use of the availability of data on commuting flows, remotely-sensed nighttime lights, and … the literature. The analysis finds that the maps and characteristics of Indonesia?s urban landscape vary substantially … detailed micro-data from Indonesia's national labor force survey, the paper shows that the estimated size of the agglomeration …

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Identifying Urban Areas by Combining Data from the Ground and from Outer Space : An Application to India

Galdo, Virgilio - 2018

This paper develops a tractable method to identify urban areas and applies it to India, where urbanization is messy. Google Earth images are assessed subjectively to determine whether a stratified large sample of Indian cities, towns and villages, as officially defined, are urban or rural in...

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Agglomeration, Urbanization and Employment Growth in Ghana : Evidence from an Industry-District Panel

Kerr, Andrew - 2019

In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated, using data from two firm censuses, as well as population census and trade data. The study is the first to use nationally representative firm data that covers the formal and...

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Shifting Comparative Advantages in Tajikistan : Implications for Growth Strategy

Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2017

The future development of the Tajik economy will be shaped by its comparative advantage on world markets. Exploiting comparative advantage enables an economy to reap gains from trade. Tajikistan's most important comparative advantage is its hydropower potential, which is far larger than the...

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Demand Side Instruments to Reduce Road Transportation Externalities in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2017

Economically efficient prices for the passenger transportation system in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area would account for broader societal costs of traffic congestion and accidents, and local and global pollution. A $2.20 per gallon gasoline tax (2006 US$) would be economically efficient,...

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